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Anonymous wrote:I thought Dakota Fanning's was the only good performance in this dumb series. It was so, so bad.

I thought both her and the guy who played her husband were very good in their roles.

I still don’t understand the Bollywood type flash dance at the opening credits. Why?!

Agree those were the two good ones, the only ones with good comedic timing. The rest was so flat.

+1

I thought they were good and he was the only non-American with a good American accent. Amelia and Benji had terrible accents. Benji half the time sounded British. It was really jarring and just awful.

+1. They really didn’t try to have the siblings resemble each other nor the parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Dakota Fanning's was the only good performance in this dumb series. It was so, so bad.

I thought both her and the guy who played her husband were very good in their roles.

I still don’t understand the Bollywood type flash dance at the opening credits. Why?!

Great song, relevant lyrics (criminal), flashes by everyone (everyone’s a suspect), it’s before the death so all happy fake faces. So every episode you contrast these fake happy dance & celebration with the new facts you’ve learned about the characters or family.
Good dissonance.
Good to see how truly fake every one of them are in that happy dance. Most of them were very broken.

It’s a screwed up rich people book and movie. Like the Bret Easton Ellis stuff

Anonymous wrote:I thought Dakota Fanning's was the only good performance in this dumb series. It was so, so bad.

Wut? She looked like a pregnant psycho druggie. And we’re supposed to believe she went to Deerfield?!? Where she met her loser sex addict cheater husband, the oldest son?

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Anonymous wrote:I watched the first episode of this because it got raves in the Guardian, and was unpleasantly surprised. It's just glossy schlock--White Lotus without any of the smart writing or self-awareness. Just another star vehicle for Nicole Kidman, who always plays a similar character, whether she's in Monterey, Australia, or Nantucket. I do like Eve Hewson, but she can't make this piece of dreck watchable all by herself. I won't be watching any more.

The book is like this as well though. It's not pretending to be anything but pretty-to-look-at light summer intrigue. And yes, Nicole Kidman can only ever play wealthy "perfect" woman because of how she looks. It was interesting seeing Isabelle Adjani. She is so charming and weird.

Yes, I loved seeing Isabelle Adjani! She is still very pretty although her face has gone the way of Nicole Kidman's and is a bit uncanny valley. Kidman is an excellent actor and can play many different roles. She is choosing to play these very safe, one-note roles, and I'm not sure why. It just seems boring if you're an actor.

Well, Kidman looked much older and in distress for her role in the ExPat.

Greer was a wig, right?

Anonymous wrote:Haven't watched it yet, but I read the book.

Eve Hewson was so good in The Knick, which was sadly short-lived.

She was ok. Wasn’t a difficult role, just play a snarky 20-something. She definitely has her own physique, height, and face shape.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone watching this new Netflix series? IME Eve Hewson is great- she has done some solid work in the last couple of years! I see so much if Bono’s features in her,lol.

Any thoughts?

No spoilers please- I am just halfway through the 3rd episode.

I liked it. Watched three episodes in one go, then 2, 2, 1 final.

It was very well done for a murder mystery. Great characters.

I wanted it to be the housekeeper.

The husband and sons were all slimeballs.

Gosh I thought the series was poorly written and snorted at the big bomb shell.
It felt thrown together and made me want to see a series with real character development.
Liev and NK’s characters and kids would have been interesting to me if written differently and I guess way more than 6 six episodes.

I liked the series. It was an engaging story in a beautiful setting and the acting was good. More than you can say about most shows these days. I wasn’t expecting anything high brow.

The decoration looked too recent and the door color too cloying. But it wasn’t far off

Amelia’s body type was perfect for the role and a great contrast to Greer. And how comfortable she was in her own skin unnerved Greer.

The awful brother even said, “at least my wife matches the wallpaper”

Someone said the house is not decorated in the appropriate way. What did you mean? It looks rich people vaguely English country to me. But is that not the way British/Australian authors on Nantucket decorate their homes?

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Anonymous wrote:I watched the first episode of this because it got raves in the Guardian, and was unpleasantly surprised. It's just glossy schlock--White Lotus without any of the smart writing or self-awareness. Just another star vehicle for Nicole Kidman, who always plays a similar character, whether she's in Monterey, Australia, or Nantucket. I do like Eve Hewson, but she can't make this piece of dreck watchable all by herself. I won't be watching any more.

The book is like this as well though. It's not pretending to be anything but pretty-to-look-at light summer intrigue. And yes, Nicole Kidman can only ever play wealthy "perfect" woman because of how she looks. It was interesting seeing Isabelle Adjani. She is so charming and weird.

Yes, I loved seeing Isabelle Adjani! She is still very pretty although her face has gone the way of Nicole Kidman's and is a bit uncanny valley. Kidman is an excellent actor and can play many different roles. She is choosing to play these very safe, one-note roles, and I'm not sure why. It just seems boring if you're an actor.

To see Kidman as the “bold & brave” Kidman, see Babygirl, a pornfest that received a 7 minute standing ovation in Venice last week.
I’m a NK fan basically in support of her clawing back from being thrown away and stripped of her children from her first husband and his cult. She succeeded professionally despite his efforts to blackball her. And she’s been in a loving relationship with the lovely Keith Urban for 20 years. You go girl!
Still, I prefer her safer projects like Big Little Lies. I guess I’m boring.

DP. I found Big Little Lies to be *anything* but safe! Her character's scenes were so hard to watch - and yet, riveting.

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Anonymous wrote:Amelia was supposed to be like that. She was a zookeeper or something in the book.

She was also that in the show.

But define "chunky" PP. She seemed to be a very healthy size 6-8....

Anonymous wrote:Amelia was supposed to be like that. She was a zookeeper or something in the book.

She was also that in the show.

Amelia was supposed to be like that. She was a zookeeper or something in the book.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone in this aside from Nicole Kidman and Meghan Fahey is insanely unattractive. There are definitely unknown actors who are good looking so it did not have to be like this. Also the interiors are all wrong - that is not what a 20 million dollar house in Nantucket looks like inside. Get it together Netflix. [/quote]

Exactly. I was like WTF. Also the female characters other than Nicole Kidman are way too old. They’re supposed to be like 25. Eve looks like an average girl. That’s okay sometimes but felt odd here. Also those men were all busted. And Dakota fanning looks horrible.[/quote]

I feel the exact same way...when did Dakota Fanning turn so so unattractive? And the girl whom played Amelia is so chunky.[/quote]

Amelia was supposed to be like that. She was a zookeeper or something in the book.